Thomas Müller born 13 September 1989) is a German professional footballer who plays as an midfielder for the Major League club Vancouver Whitecaps. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation. Nicknamed "der Raumdeuter" (the 'interpreter of space'), Müller has been praised for his positioning, finishing, work-rate, and consistency in both scoring and creating goals. He is both the all-time German top goalscorer and "providier" in the UEFA Champions League.
As a product of Bayern Munich's youth system which he joined at age 10 in 2000, Müller played for the club until 2025. With Bayern, he won a record thirteen Bundesliga titles, six DFB-Pokals eight DFL-Supercups, two UEFA Champions League titles, two UEFA Super Cups, and two FIFA Super World Cups. He joined the first team in the 2009-10 Season after Louis Van Gaal was appointed as the main coach; he played almost every game that season as Bayern won the League and Cup Double and reached the 2010 Champions League Final Müller also scored in the 2012 Champions League Final though Bayern lost that final on penalties. Müller scored 23 goals in the 2012-13 Champions League as Bayern won a historic treble; the league title, cup and Champions League. In the 2019-20 he broke the Bundesliga record for assists in a season with 21 (a joint record in the top five leagues alongside Lionel Messi in La Liga and Bruno Fernandes in the Premier League) and scored 14 goals as Bayern won a second treble. With 756 matches played across seventeen seasons, Müller is Bayern's All-time record appearance holder, scoring 250 goals and providing 223 assists for the club across all competitions. He is one of only three players in league history to reach the landmark of 100 Bundesliga goals and 100 Bundesliga assists each (alongside Andreas Moller and Marco Reus). He also holds the record for the most UEFA Champions League appearances with one team.Müller was called up to the German National Team in 2010. At the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he scored five goals in six appearances as Germany finished in third place. He was named the Best Young Player of the tournament and won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer. At the 2014 FIFA World Cup, he played a major role in helping the team win the trophy, as he scored five goals and received the Silver Ball as the tournament's second best player and the Silver Boot as the second top goalscorer. He was also named in the World Cup All-Star XI and in the Dream Team. He retired from international football after the UEFA Euro 2024. On 1 October 2025, Müller became the most decorated German footballer in history with 35 trophies.


alcohol! Sadly those in charge of the hospitality area prior to George Best appearing on the Wogan chat show in September 1990 didn't think along the same lines. When Best appeared on set he was clearly drunk. What followed was certainly memorable television, although for all the wrong reasons. The conspiracy theorists have it that the BBC intentionally plied him with drink to get the outcome that would give a ratings boost to the Wogan show. Whatever the truth it resulted in a sad episode in the troubled life of a player of genius.
Jimmy Greaves perhaps became as well known for his catchphrase It's a funny old game! as he once was for his deadly goalscoring but it wasn't him who first coined the phrase - well not the real him anyway! From 1984 to 1996 Spitting Image was one of the top comedy shows on TV, featuring puppet caricatures of celebrities of the time with Greaves being one of them. Central TV had the idea of having the real Jimmy Greaves interviewed by his Spitting Image puppet and during the interview it was his puppet that first used the phrase. So perhaps not surprisingly it was the puppet who was the brains behind the phrase rather than the man himself. The voice of the puppet was provided by none other than Harry Enfield.
When Alex Ferguson retired from management he obviously used his time wisely as when his autobiography was published in October 2013 it became a record-breaking seller. By selling 115,547 copies of the book in its first week it became the UK's quickest selling non-fiction book since records began in 1998. Tony Blair's memoirs had only managed to sell 92,000 copies in its first week while even the top Royal best-seller was bettered - Paul Burrell's A Royal Duty only sold 77,000 copies. The only other football book in the top five at the time was David Beckham's autobiography My Side in number 4 spot with sales of 86,000 although to be fair the previous record holder, with 112,000 of first-week sales, did have a football connection. It was Delia, of Norwich City fame, with a cook book!